Sustainability and Ethics in Apple Inc.

Running Head: SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS
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SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS

Running Head: SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Ethics in Business Decisions Literature Review.............................................................................3
Ethics in small business...................................................................................................................4
Critical Review of Case study.........................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Running Head: SUSTAINABILITY AND ETHICS
INTRODUCTION
Apple is one of the latest flagships based in the America and headquartered in California.
The major activities that Apple is involved in are to design, develop and sell the consumer
electronics computer software and the services through the online mode. Recently the Apple has
claimed to maintain strong and the ethical roots which are to be analyzed in this report in the
most appropriate manner. In this report a literature review is conducted along with the critical
review of the case studies (Crane, Matten, Glozer and Spence, 2019).
Ethics in Business Decisions Literature Review
The corporations of 21st century are well aware of the impacts of the businesses operations they
are pursuing and are often faced with the dilemmas of acting ethically or the enhancement of the
business profits. The following segment evaluates the ethical and sustainability practices in the
entity Apple Inc. Apple is one of the leading technology companies of the world. In context of
the use of the natural resources of the planet, the entity had encourages their partners to use the
alternative resources of energy and is itself engaged in the building of their facilities that are
driven by the clean energy (Cook & Jardim, 2017). In the words of Barbosa (2017), the company
has already managed to attain the use of renewable energy or the green energy to the tune of 100
percent across their facilities in United States which includes the data centers, corporate offices
or retail stores. According to Horwitz & Huang (2016), the entity Apple facilitates the supplying
partners in the transition to renewable energy and the reduction of the carbon footprint which is
evident by the company’s investment of around 30 percent in the Chinese wind turbine
manufacturing company Goldwind. The said investment has been done because of the fact that
most of Apple’s manufacturing processes are located in China. In terms of the sustainability
practices, the company Apple Inc. has ordered its manufacturing suppliers to discontinue the use
of the n-hexane and benzene at the time of the assembly stage of the products of entity (The
Associated Press, 2014). These are in addition to the factory inspections as well as the general
audits being conducted by the enterprise in context of the use of the hazardous chemicals,
installation of the necessary equipment for safety of the employees and an overall industrial
hygiene. Apart from the above, the company has developed its own supplier’s code of conduct to
be followed by the partner suppliers on the lines of the Ethics and Management Systems, Labor